City of Rats

Welcome to the gutters of 1970s Paris - and the anarchic, darkly comic world of Rat City . When pet rat Gouri finds himself locked out of his owner''s apartment, he has no choice but to strike out alone onto the pavements of Paris. But what begins as a strange and marvellous bedtime story - Gouri and his new friend Raka selling flour-coated worms to pigeons for spare change - soon spirals into an exhilarating whirlwind of murder, sex, unionised hamsters, courtroom drama, and, finally, Armageddon. Told through a series of letters from Gouri to Argentinian playwright Copi, City of Rats channels Copi''s lifelong fascination with society''s outcasts-queer people, immigrants, the homeless, and criminals-into a fiercely imaginative, unflinchingly provocative tale of a world hurtling into madness. TRANSLATED BY KIT SCHLUTER ''Copi is the sassiest, most decadent, poised, unpredictable, violent, galling, and marvellous of any author in the past quarter century'' Charlie Hebdo

Product details

• Authors: Copi
• Assisted by: Kit Schluter (Translation)
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 02.04.2026
• EAN: 9781529951523
• ISBN: 978-1-5299-5152-3
• No. of pages: 160
• Dimensions: 132 mm x 204 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Historical fiction, FICTION / Classics, Fiction in translation, Paris (City), c 1970 to c 1979, Satirical fiction and parodies, FICTION / World Literature / France / 20th Century, FICTION / World Literature / Argentina, Classic fiction: general and literary, Classic fiction: literary and general, Narrative theme: animals, Narrative theme: social issues / social problems